DSO life expectancy

[Sylvi]

Old Printer wrote in post-60:
"Digilent uses a pin and socket joint to connect the BNC board to the main board. If you pop the hood on much of the older "real" test equipment you are "used to" you will find that companies like Tektronix used the same type of joint for many years to connect a myriad of vaccume tubes and then transistors to the main boards. "

In those units, all the wiring between the fiddly multipin connectors and the front-panel user interfaces is fixed in place and has negligible if not zero stress on the wiring or the connections. With the AD2 and similar, all of the connections are flexed and pulled and can break much more easily. Not a good road to reliability.

The AD2 isn't even shielded